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|presentname= Gilgit
|stateprovince= [[Federally Administered Northern AreasGilgit-Baltistan]] (FANA)|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgit Gilgit]|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan]|country= [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Pakistan]]
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'''Gilgit''' was the main town of [[Gilgit Agency]].
==SitesCemetery==* [[BACSA]] has published the book ''Gilgit: A Guide to the Christian Cemetery, Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan'' by Susan Farrington, 2001 8pp, illustrations. See [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books]. :There is also a catalogue reference to Gilgit in the [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]], Mss Eur F370/699. Possibly the reference is to the published book==External links==*[http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2013/07/GWHayward.html Death on the Farang Bur] by Salman Rashid July 26, 2013. George Whitaker Hayward, explorer died not very far from Gilgit and his remains today lie buried in the Christian Cemetery. He was beheaded, in 1870. ===Historical books online===*[http://www.archive.org/stream/makingoffrontier00durarich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Making of a frontier: five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral & the eastern Hindu-Kush''] by Algernon Durand 1900 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907.*'"A Frontier Tour" by Lieut-Colonel J. R. C. Gannon (Being Extracts from a Diary written during a journey made with H. E. Lord Rawlinson, C.-in-G. in India, through Dir, Chitral, and the Gilgit Agency, in 1923) ''The Himalayan Journal'': Part 1 [https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/3/ ''Volume 3'' 1931, click on item 8]; Part 2 [https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/4/ ''Volume 4'' 1932, click on item 8] himalayanclub.org.
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